Insisting as a speech act in two Shakespearean comedies with reference to its realization in Kurdish

Abstract EN

People's private lives consist to a phenomenal extent of speech acts: throughout the day, people use speech acts in their conversations, and also interpret kinds of speech acts performed by other people.

Once a speaker produces an utterance, the addressee immediately seeks to categorize the utterance as this or that kind of speech act.

This means that public life can be conceived as a gigantic network of speech acts.

However, a large number of the verbs expressing these speech acts have not yet been systematically investigated.

To highlight the role of Speech Act Theory in literary analysis, the present paper investigates the analysis of the speech act of insisting in two Shakespearean comedies: A Mid-Summer Night's Dream and As You Like It, with reference to its manifestation in the Kurdish translated version available.

The paper consists of six sections: section one is introductory; it sheds light on speech act theory in general with reference to the importance of speech act theory of literature in the process of analyzing literary texts.

Section two discusses speech act theory of literature in more details.

Section three discusses the concept of 'insist' as a speech act verb; Sections four, exhibits the structure of the speech act of insisting with reference to the general components of speech act verbs set by Searle in his standard model (1969).

Section five, represents the core of the study.

It exhibits the analysis of the speech act of insisting and meanwhile shows its realization in the Kurdish translated version of the texts under study.

This realization highlights aspects of similarities and differences between the source and the target languages.

Section six, eventually, is assigned for stating and discussing the findings the paper has come out with.

The paper ends with a list of the sources utilized.

As for the pedagogical implication of the study, we can say that such a topic will undoubtedly be advantageous for students working within the fields of semantics, pragmatics, stylistics, literary pragmatics; as well as for researchers in the related areas.